Paddy Power’s financial spread betting venture, Paddy Power Trader has been following the movement of its client base trading Irish shares for the past number of days. Despite considerable volatility in the international markets, paddypowertrader says that retail investors are piling into Irish equities.

Financial spread betting firm Delta Index is investing €3 million in its online trading platform and creating new jobs in its IT development team over the next three years as it expands its business overseas.

Worldspreads is currently in litigation to recover over Euro 1 million from 2 debtors. The figures are significant, given that WorldSpreads made a profit of Euro 530 000 on revenue of Euro 6.6 million last year.